Stepmom sentenced to life; dad faces civil suit in death of toddler

Yesterday in a packed courtroom in Macomb County, Renee King was sentenced to life in prison for the 2010 murder and sexual abuse of her 2-year-old stepdaughter Lily Furneaux-Wolfenbarger.
The toddler's father, Jeffrey Wolfenbarger, now faces a civil suit filed on March 20 in Macomb County by the girl's mother Lauren Furneaux on behalf of the ...

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If bio mom saw marks and the child was afraid of going there, as evidenced by what she said, why isn’t the bio mom being charged for neglect? Everyone knows that when a child is fearful of a particular place or person, that there could be sexual abuse going on. The child being fearful isn’t evidence by itself, but add in the injuries, and the mom should have said something. Kind of makes me wonder what happened in bio mom’s house. What does she have to hide? Why didn’t she take the child to the doc to get the injuries checked out? There can only be so many innocent reasons for bruises, but burns? Why didn’t she notify law enforcement of this, and get the judge to rule that she didn’t have to have unsupervised visitation? It’s not adding up.

From what i have read, the biological mother was afraid tahst she would lose custosy of the child because her own lawyer told her that if she complained about the bruises and requested full custody, there was a possibility that she would lose custody of the child to the father. This was because the judge in the custody hearing had sided more with the fsther. Also, the mom had already decided to take the toddler to the pediatrician because of the bruises, but pediateician’s office was closed the day she called. Child died two days before dsy of appointment with the pediatrician.